Kon-Tiki
Six scantily-clothed young Norwegians surviving by their wits in the open ocean: what’s not to like? Think "Gilligan's Island" – but on purpose.
Kon-Tiki is the name of both a raft and an expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947. Heyerdahl and his crew sailed the raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands to demonstrate the possibility that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
The theory Heyer…